Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 916

“The words of Easter”

    The latest installment of the joint Hamblin-Peterson column is up in the Deseret News:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...   Posted from Idaho Falls, Idaho    

A divisive campaign of unprecedented nastiness

    Donald Trump expressed doubts about Ted Cruz’s evangelicalism.  Then he questioned Ben Carson’s Seventh-Day Adventism.  Now, he’s questioned Mitt Romney’s Mormonism:   “Trump on Romney: ‘Are You Sure He’s a Mormon?'”   And he’s just renewed his personal attacks on Megyn Kelly, of Fox News:   http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/...   I don’t believe that there [Read More...]

BOM Mosiah 6

    In today’s reading, Mosiah 6, we learn that King Mosiah II himself worked as a farmer.   Which suggests that the Nephite society of this period in the Book of Mormon — corresponding to the Pre-Classic era — was quite different from the grandiosity of the largely Classic and Post-Classic ruins that dot Mesoamerica today. [Read More...]

Man’s way of “redemption” versus God’s

    “If man had his way, the plan of redemption would be an endless and bloody conflict. In reality, salvation was bought not by Jesus’ fist, but by His nail-pierced hands; not by muscle but by love; not by vengeance but by forgiveness; not by force but by sacrifice. Jesus Christ our Lord surrendered [Read More...]

“Mitt Romney to vote for Ted Cruz in Utah”

    Mitt Romney has become perhaps the most vocal and prominent leader of the anti-Trumpist movement.   I heard this CNN story today when I was buying lunch at a McDonald’s in Pocatello, Idaho.  “I’ve lost a lot of respect for him,” the man standing beside me immediately remarked, indicating Romney.  I responded that [Read More...]

“’See That Ye Are Not Lifted Up’: The Name Zoram and Its Paronomastic Pejoration”

  By my count, today marks the 191st consecutive Friday — out of the 192.5 weeks since we decided to launch it — on which Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture has published at least one article.  Today we published two.  This is the second of them:   “See That Ye Are Not Lifted Up”:

“Assessing an ‘argument’ against LDS belief in the pre-existence”

    http://scripturalmormonism.blogspot.i...   Posted from Idaho Falls, Idaho    

Mr. Trump: “There will be riots”

  He’d better win, right?   ‘There WILL BE RIOTS’ – Trump threatens if he doesn’t get the nomination!   Posted from Idaho Falls, Idaho  

“’My People Are Willing’: The Mention of Aminadab in the Narrative Context of Helaman 5-6″

  It’s Friday.  So, of course, Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture is in publishing mode:   “My People Are Willing”: The Mention of Aminadab in the Narrative Context of Helaman 5-6   We hope that you’ll enjoy this article.   Posted from Idaho Falls, Idaho    

“Mormon Scolded by Christian Group Is At Center of Kansas Law”

    It seems to me that the distinction between a group that funds itself and a group that receives government money is crucial here:   http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/mo...   Now, you might say, simply being allowed to meet in a room at a public university constitutes a kind of taxpayer subsidy.  I see the point, but [Read More...]